Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Though his Royal Highness spends much time in his hothouses and amid his beehives and poultry runs, he retains a robust interest in sport. Before leaving Brussels for Stockholm he issued instructions that detailed news of the Dempsey-Tunney fight be cabled to him. Interviewed by newsgatherers, he said: "I watched Tunney throughout the American Army boxing championship matches in 1919 [from General Pershing...
Yale's reinstatement of hockey as a winter sport is now considered almost certain since Podoloff and Sons, a New Haven real estate concern, has guaranteed the completion of the Walker rink, left unfinished owing to the death of Harry Z. Walker this summer. The new operators have stated that they have sufficient financial backing to complete the project within 60 days...
...practice. Consequently, when the new rink seemed destined not to be completed, the college authorities decided that another season of touring would be impracticable and announced a week ago that the hockey schedule for the winter was cancelled. However, there now seems to be no reason for excluding the sport, since the new rink will be finished before Christmas. Until the completion of the Walker rink, it is expected that the Yale team will go to Springfield or practice...
...found it impossible to leave his business in New York City. Coach Lewis, although he has had no active connection with the game since coming to Harvard, is not without experience. After learning the game under the Canadian players in the vicinity of Buffalo, New York, he organized the sport at Penn State, where he coached for 12 years...
Although lacrosse is not an official fall sport, Coach Lewis has issued a call for all Freshmen who are not engaged in any other sport to sign up at any time. The schedule this year will probably be larger, as Dartmouth, Williams, Brown and several other New England colleges are showing a greatly increased interest in the sport...